Carroll Parrott Blue stands by a waterway on Martin Luther King Boulevard near Griggs Road that she said has had problems with flooding. Blue is advocating a resurgence in southeast Houston.

Carroll Parrott Blue stands by a waterway on Martin Luther King...

I met Caroll Parrott Blue a few years ago, when I was writing about Emancipation Park, and, though she didn't figure prominently in the story, I mentally filed her as a Very Useful Person to Know: a writer and filmmaker who'd grown up in the Third Ward and seemed to know everything about the place.

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